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The Employment Potential of Labor Intensive Industries in India’s Organized Manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Wadhwa, Deepika; Kalita, Gunajit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for...
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Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence from firm level survey in India
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in Indias organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365076
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Internationalization of Tertiary Education Services in Singapore
Toh, Mun-Heng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper traces the development of the education sector from its nascent stage of serving economic development needs to the internationalization stage of fulfilling Singapore’s aspiration to be a global education hub. The state plays an important role in guiding and fostering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277970
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Internationalization of Tertiary Education Services in Singapore
Toh, Mun-Heng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper traces the development of the education sector from its nascent stage of serving economic development needs to the internationalization stage of fulfilling Singapore’s aspiration to be a global education hub. The state plays an important role in guiding and fostering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278095
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Internationalization of Tertiary Education Services in Singapore
Toh, Mun-Heng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper traces the development of the education sector from its nascent stage of serving economic development needs to the internationalization stage of fulfilling Singapore’s aspiration to be a global education hub. The state plays an important role in guiding and fostering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278247
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Human Capital vs. Physical Capital : A Cross-Country Analysis of Human Development Strategies
Siddiqui, Rizwana - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This study estimates a small simultaneous equation model using panel data from sixty-four countries for the years 1996 and 2004. The model is estimated by various techniquesOLS, TSLS, dummy variable approach introducing variation at the regional level, and fixed and random effect approaches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363341
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Building Social Trust : A Human Capital Approach
Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Much evidence suggests individuals differ in their predisposition to cooperate, which is essentially a component of human capital. This paper examines the role of individual cooperative tendencies and their interactions with institutions in generating social trust; it also endogenizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363365
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The Cost Competitiveness of Manufacturing in China and India - An Industry and Regional Perspective
Ark, Bart Van; Erumban, Abdul Azeez; Chen, Vivian; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365478
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The Chinese Export Bundles - Patterns, Puzzles and Possible Explanations
Wang, Zhi; Wei, Shang-Jin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to the rising export sophistication. Somewhat … overlap in the export structure between China and high-income countries. Instead, improvement in human capital and government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365522
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Demographics, Labor Mobility, and Productivity
Wilson, E. J.; Jayanthakumaran, K.; Verma, R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is shown there are significant differences in wages and human development measures to which...
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